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When the Republic was proclaimed in Paris in 1848, Schoelcher drafted the emancipation decree that freed 87,500 slaves in Guadeloupe and 72,000 in Martinique.
Promoting overseas trade and the founding of a navy, Richelieu also launched France on the road to empire with the colonization of Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Caribbean.
Some years later, French colonizers moved south to both Guadeloupe and Martinique.
The smaller islands, French Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy, are administrative sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures) of Guadeloupe.
Ironically, the British occupation gave Guadeloupe’s economy a big boost: between 20,000 and 30,000 more slaves were transported in and new cane-grinding windmills built, all of which spurred the sugar trade to unprecedented prosperity.